According to the 1880 census Elijah did not know where his parents were born. Julia's father was from Illinois and her mother Arkansas.
Sources
Family Search.com
RootsWeb's World Connection Project; Starting from Northwest Arkansas, mostly Franklin County and connecting those lines to their ancestor and descendants, Entries: 49027, Updated: 2007-03-16 00:53:16 UTC (Fri), Owner: Will
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNW7-ZC9 : 12 August 2017), Elija Morrison, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 64, sheet 823B, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 0044; FHL microfilm 1,254,044.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Elijah by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Elijah: